Category: Alchemists

A Persian Muslim philosopher from Nishapur, surnamed’Hujjatu-l-lslam, (lslam,s convincing proof), who did for Islam what Thomas Aquinas did for Christianity. His works were turned into…

Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) English scientist, physicist, and mathematician who is credited generally with establishing modern science, paving the way for the breakthroughs of the…

Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. 722/723–c. 815) One of the most important Islamic alchemists. Jabir ibn Hayyan, known in the West as Geber (also Giaber or…

Maria Prophetess In Alchemy, one of the early and most esteemed Hellenistic alchemists. Maria Prophetess is also known as Maria the Jewess, Maria the Hebrew,…

Paracelsus (1493–1541) One of the greatest of alchemists and Hermetic philosophers, whose popular but unorthodox healing methods and supreme arrogance ran him afoul of the…

Mormius, Peter (17th c.) Alchemist and Rosicrucian. In 1630 Peter Mormius, a noted alchemist and author of Rosicrucian works, sought to introduce Rosicrucianism into Holland…

Thomas Norton, (d. 1477) was an English alchemist who learned from George Ripley. Thomas Norton is the author of a noted alchemical work, The Ordinall…

Johann Mylius (16th–17th c.) German philosopher and student of Alchemy, known for his books of alchemical emblems. Johann Mylius’s best-known work is Philosophia reformata (“Philosophy…

Michael Sendivogius (1566–1646) was a Moravian alchemist. Born in Moravia, Michael Sendivogius—whose true last name was Sensophax—was an expert in mining and manufacturing of pigments…